Jeffrey, thanks. Emu seems to be a good choice. Especially the 1212m which has a price comparable to my Behringer FCA202 (a soundcard that has almost driven me mad...). The 1212m can be clocked from an external clock which is nice for precision addicts like me ;-)
One thing that bothers me is the frequency response specification of the 1212m, 20-20000Hz with no mention of sample rate. If there is a roll-off a bit further up, it may be useless for SDR at 96/192kHz FS? 73 Johan SM6LKM Jeffrey Pawlan wrote: > The original highend sound system by Emu was the 1820m This consists off three > PCI cards plus a large external box with all the audio circuitry inside of > this > box. Emu has discontinued this although some are available used. > > Almost the same quality but half the number of channels is the model 1616m. > I have this with a pcmcia card (cardbus) interface and it has a smaller > external > box for the audio circuitry. It also requires a wallwart power supply of 48vdc > which was previously internally generated in the old model 1820m. > > The 1616m-PCI is the same as the one I have but it uses a PCI card instead of > pcmcia. Both version are $500 USD here. The quality is excellent and owing to > putting the audio in a separate enclosure, the SNR is 125dB on my screen. > > The 1212m which Alberto has tried, is simply a pair of PCI cards with all > circuitry on those cards. There is no shielding yet they claim 120dB dynamic > range. The price is only $150 USD. It will work at 192KHz but Alberto must > write > an additional part to Winrad in order to allow the selction of non-standard > ASIO > channels. The other two models use standard channels and work very well with > winrad. > > > 73, > > Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL > > > _______________________________________________ > Winrad mailing list > [email protected] > http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org > _______________________________________________ Winrad mailing list [email protected] http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org
